Myoozik

Music, repetitive electronic music, is more than a complex interplay of soundwaves...it primarily is a means of communication; rhythmic coded tonal knowledge. Music is visible...Synesthasia. A means of communication simultaniously transmitting visuals and sounds, thus creating atmosphere.

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A Basic Outline of the Culture Behind the Music: Rave Culture

Some Most Excellent Rave Links

Compelling Rave Flyers

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME (RELATIVE TO SO-CALLED "DANCE" OR "RAVE MUSIC)

Dance music...is like a a giant orange, once you split it open there are so many segments to choose from that you don't know where to start... Whether you are into jungle, garage, techno or hardcore, it all has one thing in common and that is house music.

House music originated in...Chicago in or around 1985. DJ Frankie Knuckles was one of the early pioneers in this new form of music. Whilst playing at a club called The Warehouse (hence the term 'house' music), he would experiment with soul and disco tunes by laying down a drum machine generated 4/4 beat on top of them. The crowd loved this new sound and house music was born. He was also responsible for the all time classic Tears (55kb WAV) (P)FFRR Records 1989. At this stage house was still a small infant that needed a lot of love and attention to help it grow. Other DJ's and producers took to the studio and started to make their own interpretations of this new sound and soon there was an abundance of new tracks being played in Chicago clubs.

The new sound of house then started to crawl it's way to other cities in America and in 1986 took it's first steps across the Atlantic to...the UK. The illegal pirate radio stations in Britain soon took up on this new sound and before long house music was being played in underground clubs in the UK. The first house tune to go commercial was Farly Jackmaster Funk's underground hit Love Can't Turn Around...which reached the national charts in September 1986. Commercial success continued for the Chicago artists and Steve Silk Hurley had the ultimate accolade of a UK No.1 with "Jack Your Body". Some producers in America did not agree with this commercialisation of the music and looked for a new sound to drive it back underground.

The inspiration for this new sound came from one musical instrument - the Roland TB 303. The main person responsible for this new sound was DJ Pierre and the name of this new sound was acid.

http://www.callieu.demon.co.uk/histhous.htm

Nick Nonsense (Halifax DJ) on the decks